RKO Palace

The Cadillac Palace Theater opened in October 1926, as the New Palace Theater (there was already a Palace Music Hall located at Clark Street and Randolph Street which was later renamed the Erlanger Theater), and was designed by Rapp & Rapp. Its interior design is similar in vein to the Los Angeles Theater - a French Renaissance beauty inspired by Versailles. The Palace Theater was originally opened as the flagship of the Orpheum vaudeville circuit (the State-Lake Theater, also in the Loop, was another one of the Orpheum circuit's vaudeville palaces in Chicago). After showcasing dozens of big-name stars during the late 1920s, the theater was converted into a movie palace in 1931 as the RKO Palace.